I finally broke down and started a blog mainly to post pictures for family and friends.

Sunday, August 24, 2014

Pray for Our Students Bulletin Board

This bulletin board was inspired by one I had seen on Pinterest found here. Sometimes we need to be reminded to pray for our young people. The challenges they face on a daily basis would probably surprise most of us. Satan is attacking them from every direction.

The school building was cut on my Cricut using the Locker Talk cartridge. I had a really difficult time with it. I designed it in Cricut Craft Room and made it as large as I could using the 12x24 mat. I cut the base from white posterboard. I had separated out all the layer pieces by using the Hide Contour feature. However, when I went to cut the layers, the machine just wouldn't cut. After much frustration, I finally realized it was because some of the hidden images were hanging off the mat. Even though I didn't want to cut those pieces, the Cricut still recognized them as all one cut. Lots of wasted time and stress. At that point I could have started over using my Silhouette Cameo (which will allow things to hang off the page, but wouldn't have been necessary for this project) and another schoolhouse cut file I have. I decided instead to just color, cut, paste, and whatever else needed to be done to make this cut work. Lesson learned.

The cute little students are from the Lettering Delights collection "Baby Got Backpack". I was going to cut the layers, but by this time I just wanted it done. So instead I just did a simple print and cut on my Silhouette Cameo.

The school bus was cut from the Everyday Paper Dolls Cricut cartridge. The kids inside the bus are cut on my Sizzix using the Bitty Body die. Their faces are stamped using the Peachy Keen Everyday Character Face Assortment. The driver is the Sizzix original doll body. I made him to resemble my husband who drives our church bus (although I was probably a little generous with the hair).

I thought a chalkboard look would be appropriate for my title. I used black cardstock and framed it out using faux woodgrain contact paper. I wrote the title with actual chalk.

1 comment:

That's adorable! What a great idea to remind everyone to pray for our students! I'm sorry you were having trouble with your machine; I've had that happen before and it can be very frustrating. But I'm glad you persevered because the bulletin board turned out great!